Would it be possible to get the format and size of the data you are trying to store? Also how many previous versions of the data would need to be stored? Aerospike is an In-Memory key value pair/ row store database. It support multi-bin or single-bin records. Its possible that a system could be designed to use an Aerospike multi-bin record configuration to store the scientific data and reserve 1 bin for the versioning/created date. Please see the following for an overview of Aerospike :